The Tucker Carlson Show
How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
Fri, 28 Mar 2025
Casey Putsch designed a diesel car that gets 104 miles per gallon – New York to LA on one tank – and goes zero to sixty in five seconds. But no car company wants to make it. Why is that? (00:00) Why Is the Auto Industry Dying? (11:23) How Putsch Built One of the Most Efficient Cars in the World (15:52) Dieselgate and EPA Corruption (20:00) The Problem With Electric Vehicle Mandates (30:44) Why the Media Is Pretending Putsch’s Car Doesn’t Exist Paid partnerships with: Jase Medical: Go to https://Jase.com and use code TUCKER at checkout for a discount Eight Sleep: Get $350 off the Pod 4 Ultra at https://EightSleep.com/Tucker Hillsdale College: Take a free online course today at https://TuckerforHillsdale.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Chapter 1: Why is the auto industry dying?
Okay, so here's my theory. The death of the U.S. auto industry was a bigger deal than I think we realized. Maybe a harbinger, hopefully not, but perhaps a harbinger of what happens to the country going forward. So Detroit dies, and people are like, oh, Detroit's such a mess. My wife is from there, so I've been there a lot. But you never thought that would happen to the rest of the country, right?
Oh, no, we're going similar ways.
We are. That's exactly right.
I live in the greater Toledo area, and that's baby Detroit.
Toledo. Exactly. Home of champion spark plugs.
Yeah. Yeah, no longer.
So I guess the question is, if we want to prevent this from spreading with the cancer that it clearly is, I think it's important to know the cause of it. So why did the auto industry, which was the most important non-defense industry we had, why did it die?
I would say largely regulation and the nature of trying to find more profit and where you ship things. It was a lack of pride in having a workforce in the future tomorrow. And those are the two things I would stick with. Because since, you know, in my opinion, you know, I've been a car guy for a long time.
Wait, you didn't mention the unions. Everyone blames the unions for the destruction of Detroit. Yeah.
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Chapter 2: How did Casey Putsch build an efficient car?
So everything, I mean, I grew up working on a motorcycle with a carburetor and rebuilding the carburetor, adjusting the flow bowl, you know, timing light, adjust the points. I mean, all that stuff, just like really super basic mechanics. And, you know, there are lots of downsides to that. They break a lot. But you could understand it.
My feeling is the vehicles that I have had that are newer, I mean, I have no idea how they work. I don't feel injection is still kind of a mystery to me. I'm sorry to say that it is. It works the same way as a carburetor.
It's just metered and more complicated.
Well, I guess this trend toward making everything electric. I bought a truck last year, a Chevy truck, which I've always had. And I was at a gas station. And all of a sudden on the dashboard, it says, stop. We're downloading information from the Internet. While you were driving? No, I was stopped.
It just specifically wanted you to stay stopped so it can... So it could, I don't know, download software. I sold the car immediately. I brought it back and sold it.
They wanted all your data to provide it to insurance companies to wreck your life, I'm sure. Is that true? Okay, insurance companies will be the downfall of cars and driving. I guarantee it. And the other thing is all the cameras that are out there, everybody's putting cameras on their car. I'm like, okay, you guys. Cameras on their car? Well, I'm sure you've seen it.
Like people are buying little cameras to see what happens. If somebody does something stupid on the road, you can use that to protect yourself legally, right? That's why they sell it. It's never occurred to me, but yes. Okay. What happens when those are mandated in every car everywhere? What happens when you're completely mandated control?
Car shuts off at exactly 55 mile an hour speed limit, no matter what. It's just another method of slippery slope of control. And it'll come from insurance companies.
And the law enforcement can turn off your car from afar, correct? Yeah, and they do. Well, with certain cars. Yeah, certain cars. So when's the last year you could have a car that can't be controlled?
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